huh, clever .

We have an Einstien, how did you figure that out.

It was deceptively simple. Every territory has to be a unique color. There are a few other things in the map that also have unique colors but are not territories, such as cities and ports, so those will add to the color total. Also you also have to remember that The Sea is a territory, but not a normal one you can own, so it is in those extra unique colors too.

Vanilla RTW has 103 territories. So I just opened the vanilla Map_Regions.tga file and counted the colors. It comes out to 109. So it was just a matter of subtracting 103 from 109 to get the number of non-territory colors in the file.

[This message has been edited by SubRosa (edited 09-06-2008 @ 05:00 PM).]

Alternately, open descr_regions, copy into a word processor, then do a search and highlight on "slaves", that should reveal the exact number of regions as well. I've used a similar method for counting buildings in EDB. Search for "plugins" or "levels" to count the trees, and "upgrades" for the number of building levels.

Another alternative for Medieval II: Total War users is to open up the descr_regions.txt, delete all extraneous text, then do a line count and divide the number of lines by 9.